[MlMt] Messages lacking content

[Randall Gellens]

On 27 Jan 2018, at 0:41, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> On 27 Jan 2018, at 4:04, Randall Gellens wrote:
>
>> I’ve noticed that a number of messages are lacking significant 
>> content.  Viewing the raw messages, at least some of them are 
>> multipart/alternative with a text/plain and a text/html body part; 
>> MailMate seems to be showing the text/plain body part (which happens 
>> to be lacking the point of the message).  Since MailMate says it 
>> displays HTML, and converts plain text to HTML, I’m curious why the 
>> text/html body part seems t be ignored.  Also, is there an equivalent 
>> to Eudora’s “Open in browser” command to open the message in a 
>> web browser?
>
> It sounds like you might have enabled the “Prefer Plain Text” 
> option in the Viewer preferences pane. This controls what is shown by 
> default.

Yes, that was it, thank you.  I must have thought that was for 
composing, even though it’s clearly in the viewing pane.

> Also note the “View ▸ Message Body Parts” menu for ways to 
> switch between which part is displayed for a given message.

Thanks.